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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP ET’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP ET is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. This role will be working as part of both the Maconomy ERP testing team, who are responsible for all QA, Test & Release activities for this platform, as well as the QA Transformers team who own and operate our Test Automation platforms. You will provide technical as well as best practice support for all areas of test automation to the business. What you'll be doing: Lead Test Automation Efforts: Develop and implement automated testing strategies for functional, integration and regression testing, ensuring maximum test coverage and efficiency. Test Automation Framework Development: Lead the development, and maintenance of reusable and scalable test scripts, as well as supporting the design and

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: Our organization is embarking on a transformative journey to unify our global data landscape through a new central initiative. We are moving away from fragmented systems to a standardized, cloud-agnostic, and AI-ready data platform built on a modern tech stack: dbt, Databricks, Python (dlt), and GitHub Actions. As a foundational member of our central platform team in Chennai, you will be a hands-on builder responsible for bringing our strategic data blueprint to life. This is a role for an execution-focused engineer who loves building high-quality, governed, and reusable data assets that will be deployed across our global markets and wants to make a tangible impact on a global scale. This role combines data engineering along with an opportunity to enable next-generation AI. What you'll be doing: Develop, test, and deploy robust, scalable, and optimized data transformation pipelines using dbt and SQL on the Databricks platform. Design and maintain scalable dimensional models (SCD1/SCD2), implement advanced partitioning, and ensure high-performance query executio

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: The Data Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of scalable data solutions across the Azure Databricks platform supporting AUNZ. This role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines using Databricks (Unity Catalog, DABs, DLT), PySpark, and SQL, delivering enterprise-scale data transformation, and supporting Power BI reporting through well-modelled silver/gold layer datasets. The Data Engineer works closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to execute technical scoping and delivery against business requirements. What you'll be doing: KRA 1 Data Pipeline Development • Design, build, test, and maintain data pipelines (ELT) using Databricks, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Asset Bundles, according to business and technical requirements. • Manage data workflows and orchestration; ensure accuracy and availability of all ELT processes. • Design and deliver silver/gold layer data models within the medallion architecture to support downstream reporting. KRA 2 Platform & Governance • Implemen

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Summary: As a Principal Software Engineer at Appian, you will be the primary technical strategist, responsible for shaping the architectural foundation of our platform. Your role involves anticipating future challenges and implementing innovative solutions today. You will drive complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring Appian remains a leader in the low-code and automation industry. Responsibilities: Define the long-term architectural vision and governance for the Appian platform. Identify systemic technical risks and lead task forces to resolve architectural bottlenecks. Develop internal tools and SDKs to simplify infrastructure and enhance developer productivity. Conduct deep-dive troubleshooting for complex production issues. Promote AI-native engineering practices and integrate AI features into the platform. Lead the development of core platform libraries and high-risk prototypes. Participate in the Architectural Guild and review high-impact design documents. Mentor lead and senior engineers, and represent Appian in the tech community. Ensure operational resilience with self-healing and highly available systems. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns. Proven transformational leadership in technological migrations or strategies. Expertise in Java and Cloud-Native ecosyst

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Principal Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Our Customer Success team in Chennai serves as elite technical advisors for global enterprise teams. We bridge deep software architecture with business strategy, building scalable platform environments that leverage AI-Powered Process Automation to solve mission-critical operational challenges. As a Principal Technical Consultant , you will assume architectural leadership for multi-application platform design, execution, and performance optimization. Top engineering talent joins Appian in this role to move beyond basic application maintenance and ensure applications are resilient, scalable, and built to power mission-critical operations at enterprise scale . What You’ll Do Architect Platform Scalability: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema optimization, data modeling , system performance, and responsive UX/UI . Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, development, and code reviews using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly isolate performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, resource contention, and latency spikes across the entire web application stack. Performance Analysis & Profiling: Analyze database execution plans, JVM/memory utilization, and Locust load test outputs to resolve root-cause architectural bottlenecks. Technical Communication & Enablement: Translate complex system diagnostics in

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Compensation Analyst III (Senior) – Equity Administration & Global Rewards Architect Appian's global equity and total rewards strategy while modernizing plan design for high-scale enterprise growth. Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: Hybrid About the Team The People Team at Appian fuels global growth by attracting, rewarding, and retaining world-class talent. In an industry powered by AI-Powered Process Automation , our team builds data-driven compensation strategies that sustain competitive market advantage. We partner directly with executive leadership to champion pay equity, optimize total rewards platforms, and drive scalable governance across global offices. The Opportunity As Appian accelerates its international expansion, modernizing our equity architecture and total rewards framework is critical. As Compensation Analyst III, you will act as a core global partner based out of our Chennai tech hub. You won't just analyze data; you will shape global pay equity initiatives, architect scalable equity management structures, and directly manage equity plan administration using E*TRADE/Morgan Stanley . This role offers a unique opportunity to build scalable compensation frameworks in a fast-paced environment backed by enterprise-grade stability. What You’ll Do Modernize Equity Plan Architecture: Lead global equity plan governance and modernize grant structures, option/RSU execution lifecycles, and cap-table administration using E*TRADE/Morgan Stanley . Drive Executive Insights & Strategic Analytics: Oversee global HR and compensation intellige

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Transform complex technical challenges into innovative, powerful solutions and own the lifecycle of core platform capabilities powering AI automation for the world's largest enterprises. ABOUT THE TEAM The Appian Product Management function is responsible for the creation, refinement, and scaling of products and services that power our global platform. Operating at the intersection of business strategy and cutting-edge engineering, our team transforms complex technical challenges into innovative, powerful solutions. We build the mission-critical core capabilities that enable AI-Powered Process Automation for the world’s most regulated and sophisticated enterprises and governments. THE OPPORTUNITY Why should an ambitious product professional join Appian right now? Our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to manage the complete product lifecycle within a high-velocity, collaborative environment. You will not just be managing a backlog; you will be the strategic bridge connecting engineering, design, and go-to-market functions to bring innovative capabilities to life. WHAT YOU'LL DO Product Vision & Execution: Own the quarterly plan, prioritize the feature backlog, and lead the delivery for a major product area. Backlog & Roadmap Alignment: Prioritize the sp

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Senior Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and driving mission-critical business impact. Grounded in our core values of Excellence and Intensity, we act as elite technical advisors to our commercial clients. By joining this high-performance team, you will champion a culture of candid communication and excellence while accelerating global adoption of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform. What You’ll Do Implement Scalable Platform Architecture: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema design, data modeling , query performance, and responsive UX/UI best practices. Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, code implementation, and unit testing using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly diagnose performance bottlenecks, memory usage, CPU constraints, and network latency spikes across the web application stack. Performance Profiling & Analysis: Analyze database execution plans, system logs, and Locust load test outputs to isolate and resolve root-cause performance bottlenecks. Technical Quality & Enablement: Ensure continuous integration and delivery alignment by applying strong DevSecOps practices, robust automated testing, and clean coding standards. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Mathematics. 8+ years of pro

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. This position is based at our office in Chennai, India. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. You will be the product manager working closely with the team whose mission is to strengthen and optimize site infrastructure by delivering essential upgrades, resource efficiency, and scalable solutions. You will be responsible for the direction and roadmap of a component of the Appian Cloud data plane that ensures reliable, high-performance operations for all Appian Cloud customer sites. This role is specifically focused on the cloud-native persistence and messaging layer. You will oversee the backend sub-systems—including technologies like S3 and Redis—that power the platform's internal data plane and core services. This component of the software is not directly user-facing but has strong implications on the scalability and reliability requirements our customers expect. What you will be doing: Prioritize and Define: Work on an agile team to prioritize, define, and ensure the success of infrastructure and managed services features for a high-level strategic roadmap. Stakeholder Collaboration: Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, while taking customer feedback into account. Technical Discussions: Define how infrastructure features will work through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions an

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Own the Identity and Access Management product roadmap and deliver enterprise-grade authentication features that secure every connection between Appian and the enterprise. ABOUT THE TEAM The IAM Product team is on a mission to secure every identity, authentication flow, and access point that connects Appian to the enterprise. This team operates with high autonomy and directly influences how global enterprises trust and deploy AI-Powered Process Automation at scale. Your work will define how millions of users authenticate securely across mission-critical workflows. THE OPPORTUNITY As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, identity security has become the frontline of platform trust. This role exists because Appian is scaling its authentication and authorization capabilities to meet zero trust demands from the world's most security-conscious organizations. You will shape how the platform handles federated identity, modern protocols, and seamless user experiences in highly regulated environments. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the end-to-end IAM product roadmap, defining priorities that balance enterprise security requirements with developer and end-user experience Partner with Engineering to evaluate, design, and enhance authentication and authorization capabilities including native authentication and support for SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, and federated identity frameworks Execute discovery and requirements gathering with enterprise customers to understand identity provider integrations, compliance needs, and zero trust adoption patterns

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. The Chief Technology Office leads Appian’s technology strategy, partnerships, and acquisitions. We often work interdepartmentally, partnering with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering to influence the product roadmap, prototype new technologies, and develop technology partnerships. This role is aimed at a Graduate with 1 or 2 years total experience. As a Software Engineer working within the CTO team, you will work across the global Product and Engineering teams to design, build, and test features that expand the scale and scope of the Appian platform. You will jump between Appian low-code, plug-ins, and the internal codebase, prototyping innovative features that ultimately impact Appian’s product vision. This is a fast-paced role that blends traditional software engineering excellence with the opportunity to work directly with new and emerging technologies. This role is based at our Chennai Office in Brigade World Trade Centre. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need: Previous industry software development experience and/or internships. Practiced knowledge of programming concepts and best practices, and the ability to leverage these to write software in a full-stack web and mobile environment. The ability and desire to design features of increas

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. The BI Analyst will be an integral part of our award-winning team, focused on leveraging business intelligence tools, including Tableau, to drive data-driven decision-making, provide global end-user support, and ensure continuous improvement for our analytics and reporting platforms. This role involves managing internal user tickets, performing system administration, creating high-impact reports and dashboards, and providing technical guidance and oversight to other team members. Key Responsibilities: End-User Support and Issue Resolution Provide timely, global end-user support, documenting, troubleshooting, and resolving requests, incidents, and problems via email and ticketing systems. Critically analyze, triage, and resolve complex issues. Utilize and build decision trees to evaluate and appropriately escalate issues to internal technology teams. Collaborate with Appian’s technology team to resolve application issues and provide guidance on system utilization. System Administration, BI Development, and Team Oversight Provide day-to-day regional oversight, guidance, and mentorship to junior members of the Sales. Perform essential system configuration, maintenance of user roles and profiles for core analytics platforms (e.g., Salesforce). Design, build, and maintain high-impact reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using both Salesforce and Tableau to meet advanced business intelligence needs. Documentation and Platform Improvement Create and maintain thorough documentation of processes, policies, and application configurations. Update the knowled

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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Drives AI-first tooling, SDLC automation, and developer productivity initiatives Required Experience & Skills 6+ years of experience building internal tools or developer platforms Strong CI/CD and automation expertise, Generative AI integration in SDLC Core Backend & Architectural Fundamentals: Deep dive into data structures, algorithms, and microservices/distributed system architecture patterns. While we embrace a language-agnostic mindset, strong proficiency in Java or Python is preferred. Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, container frameworks (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines is a major advantage Modern Engineering Practices (Highly Valued): Daily utilization of AI tools and agentic engineering environments (e.g., Kiro, Claude, Copilot) to accelerate software design, automate background workflows, and optimize developer productivity Tools and Resources Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires. Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Appian platform, your mission will be to ensure Appian is always fast, scalable and up to whatever tasks our customers configure it to do. You will be focused on designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems while providing technical leadership and mentorship and building a product capable of serving our customers in ways you never imagined. This role includes not just deep coding expertise, but also a focus on system orchestration, using AI Tools and AI integration (like RAG, agentic workflows, MCP), and aligning technical decisions with business strategy. Key Responsibilities The SSE isn't just "faster at coding"—they are responsible for the health of the entire codebase and the growth of the team. Code Quality & Standards: Set and enforce the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Architecture & Design: Leading high-level design sessions, choosing architectural patterns (Microservices, Serverless, Event-driven), and ensuring systems are scalable and secure. Developer Enablement: Create internal tooling and "Golden Paths" that abstract away the complexity of underlying infrastructure for feature teams. Technical Leadership: Mentoring junior engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, , setting the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Project Ownership: Driving features from requirement analysis through depl

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📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India· Full-time
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TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television, while also maintaining a strong global presence in India with offices in Bangalore and Chennai that support technology, product, and business operations initiatives. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. Senior Backend Java Developer Position Summary TEGNA is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Java Developer to join our highly collaborative and agile engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and building scalable backend platforms in high-performance environments. You will work on designing and developing cloud-native applications and distributed systems while collaborating across engineering teams to deliver reliable and innovative solutions. What You’ll Do • Design, develop, and implement scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. • Build and optimize microservices-based architectures to support high-performance applications. • Develop reliable and scalable solutions for distributed systems operating in high-traffic environments. • Partner with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver quality solutions. • Improve application performance, resiliency, scalability, and system reliability. • Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices and quality standards. • Drive continuous improvements through emerging technologies and modern development practices. • Support cloud deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives. What You’ll Bring • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or

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